"'Twas Halloween and the ghosts were out,
And everywhere they'd go, they shout,
And though I covered my eyes I knew,
They'd go away.
"But fear's the only thing I saw,
And three days later 'twas clear to all,
That nothing is as scary as election day."
-- Norah Jones, from "My Dear Country" (Not Too Late, Blue Note Records, 2007); written before the 2004 US election